Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

Law never is, but is always about to be.